forum How can I love when I'm afraid...? (One-on-One)

Started March 02, 2019 by @RedTheLoveless

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Charles waved to the desk clerk as he signed himself into his shift. Another sleepless night with graveyard duty… He sighed and purposefully ignored her flirty wink in his direction and instead kept a friendly smile on his face as he hurriedly rushed himself to the locker room, changing from his civilian clothes into his blue ER scrubs. He took a moment to check himself in the mirror. No glowing marks tonight? Good.

Acario wiped his hands off on his coat, stringing his long, dark purple-black hair with streaks of gray in it up into a loose bun. Not only did he like the style, it fit well with his broad, square face. He took off his heavy coat and clocked in, sighing at how early he was to his shift. Fifteen minutes. Damn, I really do like my job, huh?
He made his way to the locker room to drop off his things, paying mind to unbuttoning his shirt, then promptly smacked into someone. He jumped back with a gasp, not expecting it.

Blonde-haired, green-eyed wonder boy Charles let out a less-than-adult shout of surprise as he was promptly run into and knocked to the ground by someone suddenly bumping into him. His eyes widened as he looked up at the poor offender, his bare back stinging against the cold floor. "Um… hi there? Sorry about that uh… unholy scream," Charles let out a friendly chuckle, trying to lighten any possible dark mood.

"Ah, shit!" The adult cursed and bent down to help up the other. "Sorry, I wasn't expecting anyone to be in here. Are you okay? And I thought I was taking the graveyard shift," Acario said with a slight head tilt, his purple eyes flitting over Charles with concern.

Charles gratefully took the man's help to stand back up. "Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks for the help up. And I dunno. Maybe a new regulation popped up and HR had to assign two docs for graveyard instead of just one?" He tried not to become uncomfortably aware he was standing shirtless in front of another rather attractive guy holy shit.

"Yeah, maybe," Acario said, nodding and going back to his half-unbuttoned shirt. "Well, I guess I'll see you out there. I'll be greatful for some type of company." He trotted down the area to his locker, which was pretty close-by, took off his shirt to show crossed scars and tattoos of all sorts. This Demon seemed to like the Human world quite a lot, telling from the tattoos.

(emi I'm smacking my head against a wall i'm such an idiot dear lord fucking hell's left testicle i'm about to stab something because of my own idiocy. Charles was supposed to have his scrubs on. Charles was supposed to have his scrubs on. ChArLeS wAs SuPpOsEd To HaVe HiS sCrUbS oN.)

"Yeah, see you around tonight then," Charles smiled and went back to complete the rest of his outfit with a shirt. Finally closing his own locker, he walked out of the locker room, only letting out held-in breath once the door closed behind him. At least I won't be alone tonight… He tried finding a bright side to this awkward situation. And at least my marks aren't glowing Charles looked down at his body as if to confirm he couldn't see a light emanating from behind his clothes. With that reassurance, he made his way to the staff lobby.

(Oh nooooOoOoOo i totally didn't know that was supposed to be and that locker rooms don't exist in hospitals o h nooooo
It's ok lol.)

Acario pulled off his jeans and t-shirt, going to his scrubs which were neatly folded in the belly of the locker. He slipped them on, took a moment to make sure he was comfortable before walking out after Charles with his lunchbag in tow. The best thing about graveyard shift is that he could eat whenever the hell he wanted, as long as he cleaned up after himself.

(in larger hospitals with residential doctors yes locker rooms do exist
but I may just go die of embarrassment anyways lmao)

(here, i'm just gonna do both of us a favor and just
delete
sound okay?)

0o0

(Maybe. I dunno I wanna bang my head on a table at how cringy and rough it started off lmao.
You?)

(Aw it's not bad Ace. It's gooooood it's better than a lot of starts I've seen.
Yes, I do wanna continue. I love RPing with you."

Can I stalk this? It had me hooked by the first two posts….))

(Okay then… we'll continue. I need to go take a shower first. Grandparents are gonna arrive and all that fun family jazz.

Yes Starlight you can stalk.

Thank you for putting up with me, Emi ^.^)

Charles glanced up at a sudden amount of noise, only to see it was a fully-changed Acario. "Hopefully it's quiet tonight," he let out a soft chuckle at his friendly conversation starter before turning on the lobby TV for background noise. "So, since we are going to be spending the night together, what's your name?"

Acario stuck his hands in his pockets, humming as he set his things down at his seat and sat down.
"Yea, hopefully, man. I'm Acario, I usually work all day on the weekend, Wednesday, and Friday. What's your name?"

"Oh, uh, I'm Charles Calarook. Pleasure to meet you, Acario. I usually work Monday to Thursday and take the occaisonal weekend graveyard shift when needed," Charles kept up his friendly demeanor as he found his way to his own seat. He felt awkward with the silence and went to ask another question to fill the void. "So uh… why did you become a doctor?"